Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Facts:

• She was born on March 6, 1806
• She was the oldest of 12 children. 8 boys and 4 girls
• She was home schooled
• She learend sevaral launguges including Greek
• When she was 12, she wrote her first epic
• She wrote during the Victorian Era
• Sonnets From the Portuguese was one of her greatest works
• Her first known poem was "On the Cruelty of Forcement to Man."
• Early 1820’s she suffered from a mysterious stomach illness
• She got married to Robert Browning secretly and from there they traveld to Italy where her health immporved a lot
• They got married against the wishes of her father
• She also sufferd from chronic weekness in her lungs
• She became depressed because of complications with her family and spent most of her time in a darkend room writting poetry and letters
• she died on June 29, 1861
• She was buried in the English Cemetery of Florence
• Her husband, Robert Browning, published a collection of Elizabeth's last poems after she died

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poem:

Life and Love
Fast this Life of mine was dying,
Blind already and calm as death,
Snowflakes on her bosom lying
Scarcely heaving with her breath.

Love came by, and having known her
In adream of fabled lands,
Gently stooped, and laid upon her
Mystic chrism of holy hands;

Drew his smile across her folded
Eyelids, as the swallow dips;
Breathed as finely as the cold did
Through the locking of her lips.

So, when Life looked upward being
Warmed and breathed on from above,
What dight could she have for seeing,
Evermore... but only LOVE?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Citation: Shilstone, Fredrick W. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning." Worldbook. 2006. 246. Print.

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